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TIL: The apartheid government in South Africa had paid kill squads that silenced those that spoke out. Seemingly regardless of public profile or race

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lodMr TIL a South African farmer rescued a baby hippo from a flood and gave it a home. The farmer fed him, brushed his teeth and helped him. The farmer was found dead with severe bite marks from the hippo and his body submerged in the river where he rescued the hippo 6 years earlier
nWE9d TIL that the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
R7Lba TIL that the Caesar Salad was not named for Julius Caesar but rather for it’s inventor, an Italian restaurateur named Cesare Cardini who created the salad in his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico in 1924
78VNr TIL Fred Armisen was in a Chicago-based punk band called Trenchmouth
epPbJ TIL Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky are the sponsors of USS Enterprise (CVN-80), and are technically considered permanent members of the ships crew.